Great fight last night between Glover Teixeira and Anthony Smith in UFC’s light heavyweight division.

Smith started well enough, but ran out of steam pretty quickly, which resulted in Teixeira laying it on in the fourth round and winning via TKO. While dropping some ground and pound and working for a submission, Teixeira actually apologized for the ass-whooping, because he’s a classy guy:

That’s something you’d never hear over crowd noise, another example of how these empty arenas are opening the door for visceral and organic communications and sounds that we previously were not privy to.

It also goes to show just how much respect these guys have for one another. It’s a violent sport, yes, but we’ve come a long way from the days of idiot fans just wanting to see guys knock each other’s lights out. There are multiple layers of respect and professionalism when it comes to mixed martial arts.